Martinez

Mask off — it’s a party! It was the first Friday night since California reopened earlier in the week and people took advantage of it.

Mask off — it’s a party! It was the first Friday night since California reopened earlier in the week and people took advantage of it. Cheryl Hurd reports.

Investigators determined a burning tennis ball being played with by three teenage boys started a fire that destroyed a Martinez home Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators determined a burning tennis ball being played with by three teenage boys started a fire that destroyed a Martinez home Wednesday afternoon.

Youths playing with fire was cited as the cause of a vegetation fire Wednesday afternoon that destroyed a house and an estimated 15 vehicles

Youths playing with fire was cited as the cause of a vegetation fire Wednesday afternoon that destroyed a house and an estimated 15 vehicles and some other equipment in Martinez, Cheryl Hurd reports.

A fire destroyed a Martinez home and several vehicles Wednesday afternoon before firefighters were able to douse the flames that pumped a plume of black smoke high into the air. Jodi Hernandez reports.

Firefighters continue to battle a house fire in Martinez Wednesday afternoon on Cambark Court.

Firefighters responded to a house fire in Martinez Wednesday afternoon. No neighboring structures have been affected.

State officials are telling counties and cities to prepare early for what may be the worst fire season on record.

Celebrate the expansion of the John Muir National Historic Site all around Muir’s historic home in Martinez. Walk in Muir’s footsteps over large swaths of protected lands, some of which Muir once owned and which today looks much as it did more than a century ago when Muir was alive and working to preserve nature and create National Parks....

Celebrate the expansion of the John Muir National Historic Site all around Muir’s historic home in Martinez. Walk in Muir’s footsteps over large swaths of protected lands, some of which Muir once owned and which today looks much as it did more than a century ago when Muir was alive and working to preserve nature and create National Parks....

NBC Bay Area has learned that thieves broke into shipping containers at the Marina in Martinez, stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of gear from the Sea Scouts, a program for kids. The group’s executive officer says she arrived Saturday morning to see the containers ransacked and up to $9,000 worth of gear and equipment missing.

A global pandemic during the holiday season can be tough to deal with, but two women who own a Martinez business are doing what they can to help.

A global pandemic during the holiday season can be tough to deal with, but two women who own a Martinez business are doing what they can to help.

A Black Lives Matter mural painted on a street in front of a Martinez courthouse building, already badly faded and now defiled by spilled white paint, is scheduled to be paved over in early October as part of a larger downtown project, Martinez’s city manager said Wednesday night. Jodi Hernandez reports.

A Black Lives Matter mural painted on a street in front of a Martinez courthouse building, already badly faded and now defiled by spilled white paint, is scheduled to be paved over in early October as part of a larger downtown project, Martinez’s city manager said Wednesday night.

The union for Mount Diablo Unified School District teachers is going public in its support of Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton and her decision to prosecute two people recorded defacing the downtown Martinez “Black Lives Matter” mural. The Mount Diablo Education Association told its members in an email that Becton has received “very threatening calls and emails from…

Hundreds of people are gathering in downtown Martinez for a Black Lives Matter demonstration at the location where a couple recently defaced a city-sanctioned Black Lives Matter mural.